001um we'd all stand and save the pledges i pledge allegiance to the fight of the united states of america for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all told me i forgot to ask if you're recording i've assumed here thank you i need to approve the minutes from two prior meetings from december 9 and december 13th and i knew we accept those minutes for both meetings second motions made and seconded any discussion hearing none i'll call for a vote all in favor say aye aye opposed nay all right uh communications so citizen comments um if you weren't here last meeting or last month um you may not know that we're changing how we do comments for this going forward we're trying to format um this portion of the agenda
002would be for general comments so i have a number of people who filled out comment forms so thank you for doing that if you are going to speak though on an agenda item we're going to try to um we're asking you to hold your comments for now and then we will call on people as we go through our agenda but if you have general comments now is the time to or if it's for items that are not on the agenda now is the time to give your um comments the same rules apply though it'll be three minutes barry will be our timers when you see his hand well if you don't mind stan i'm stand by that table over there that helps with the um the camera so people can see who's making the comment
003uh and to be clear we can do both right absolutely yeah no thank you for that clarification i i forgot to mention that so um and what the way a process will work as we go through an agenda item if there's an administrative um presentation that will go first the board then will have a discussion second then we'll take public comments on that agenda item and again the three minute time limit applies and all the same rules but and i'll ask for people to raise their hand because you don't need to sign up in advance because you may not know frankly if you have a comment until you hear the administration and the board talk we'll hear those comments um and then if we're going to take a vote at that meeting we'll take the
004vote or we may put the vote off to a further meeting so we have time to digest the discussion it depends on kind of depends on the item see how it goes so for general comments ryan hill your first update i put mine in first i should have been last one brian mueller good evening board i uh i hope you had good holiday season and uh spend it with the ones you love and you know santa was good i guess so i want to talk about a topic from last meeting there are a few people that spoke on the books we have in our library banning books i want to be clear i don't think anybody is really advocating for banning all books or books that they may disagree with a viewpoint or something they're
005specific books that i think we need to pay attention to because they're just plain inappropriate and that's what i think prior comments we're getting after just a couple things i want to touch on we have two state statutes that govern this so the first one is section 118-019 which regulates the instruction of human growth and development it says material must be of must be age appropriate and medically accurate so i know a lot of the books that have been brought up that is not the case and that is why they have been asked to be checked into and i know that um prior meetings that they are being checked into i understand we have a task force going on that's looking into those things the other one i want to bring to your attention is
006uh statute 948.11. now this prohibits the provision of any narrative uh of sexual excitement material that has such exciting narrative to it to a minor now to be fair there is a statute on the books that provides an exemption for school libraries however if you or i were to just give a kid on a street a random kid on a street one of these books that were brought up we'd be in violation of a felony so i don't think that we want that sort of thing in our schools especially some of these books were brought up were already in violation of the statute i mentioned previously so i just want to bring that to your attention and i say appreciate the work that's being done already that we are taking the time to look into
007these that's very appreciated and it makes us feel hurt as a community thank you melby well first i want to thank you for taking the time to listen peter for for uh changing that up the public comment uh format yeah i appreciate that and the more i feel the more uh community involvement we can get and voice in the public we get is only going to help um i want to address the the esser iii fund spending plan discussed at last month's meeting i really appreciate the district making the effort to survey the community to get input and involvement on how we feel about the current plan to spend the funds it's a it's a significant enough amount of money that i feel that this was a good step i'm very glad to see that
008we're planning to spend the largest amounts of money to address the deficiencies in math and reading i'm also happy to see that one of the duties of the proposed lmc special specialist will be a materials audit i would like to see community involvement on this project when we get to that point i firmly believe in keeping public in the term public schools the more parents and community community members i talk to the more i'm learning that there are significant shortages and qualified staff for special needs classes um perhaps i missed it but do we have a plan to do to address these short comments with someone who has some three funds i'd like to see that addressed and added if it's not there well i support the vast majority of this plan i have one
009glaring concern what do we do with the fund when the funds run out three and a half million dollars goes into building infrastructure to address some shortfalls in bringing some of the things we've been missing but the vast majority of these funds go to new salaries most of which are only for two years by my account we're adding at least eight positions for the next two years we just fire these people in in two years when the funds run out that doesn't sound great or do we petition the taxpayers to cough up another million and a half dollars a year to cover those salaries going forward that doesn't sound good either i just want to make sure that we have a predetermined clear exit or transitional strategy once those funds are gone thanks next up
010tomorrow hi i'm here to talk about iep kids in our school how i can watch these kids and the school doesn't teach to them the whole school teaches over their head the entire time they're here these kids are the ones in most needed help they are the ones that bring the most money to the school and we still do refuse to teach them just this week like my son has an iep and they're they're starting a new book and to get them excited about the book we got questions like do you think the community that you live in has different social classes that's question number one what are they and to explain it you're talking about kids here that if they're doing well read at a fourth grade level if they're doing well this is
011a teen novel book the next question do you notice a difference between kids of upper class and children of economic disadvantages what are they that's that's what our iep get these are iep kids that we're talking about here their reading ability is between second and fourth grade these are the questions we're asking them to get them excited about a book do you think that corporations lie to american people should people be forced to be vaccinated why or why not again this is nine kids in a class they all need assistance with reading and math along with that's sixteen percent of our school along with 52 percent of the rest of our school that cannot even read or do math at grade level what are we doing about this problem we have 3.5 million dollars don't
012you think we should start addressing this problem at like first to fourth grade and maybe by the time they are graduating i mean this isn't for my my kids have minimal time left here but i think this is an issue that should be addressed at first the fourth grade when we were in third grade we were told they quit teaching reading in second grade that i think that's foolish if the kid can't read the kid can't do math the kid can't do history the kid can't the kids can't do anything i i think this should be addressed i this is i've talked about this before i have not seen anything about it please review my concerns thank you stay sequel hello stacy coleman i just want to first say hello to everyone that i'm just
013noticing how interesting it is that we're speaking at a school and all of us are supposed to be here for students and the fact that as a parent i feel like i need to lie for attention for the people who basically right now have our kids captivated are supposed to be helping them thrive and grow in a learning environment and the fact that we have to come here and savings issues from our heart it's disheartening actually to me that as parents we have to come here and explain what's just naturally supposed to be um caring for kids we're in a school environment it's just mind-boggling that that we have to explain these basic to me common sense things our kids are not getting the education that they should be getting at burlington here in the
014school district i'm not worried about other districts but the fact remains that burlington's students are lacking in a thriving environment so um as you know i taped a lot of you in an email recently with a reassignment that my husband was just talking about i was livid because my son bless his heart is 17 has had an iep since he's been five years old and he was smart enough to pull out his phone in a classroom that he was not supposed to do it because he knew that these questions were wrong they crossed an ethical boundary and i'm angry and have every right to be especially with the vaccine shame on this district and that teacher deleted that assignment do you know she deleted it on accident is what she told the kids that's embarrassing
015you don't delete an assignment please stop that's crazy i would be ashamed if i were that teacher so you all know that my dad is dick peterson who was the vice principal was in high school for over 30 years the one thing that was great about my dad as a vice principal was that he did not have to tell people that he was an authoritative figure he didn't have to tell people you will respect me you will listen to me i command you to he never had to do that you want to know why because he earned their respect he listened to the stamp he listened to the teachers he listened to the students do you know that to this day i'm 51 years old i will still have people come to me and say
016i'm so appreciative of your dad do you know how many times i was in his office but he took the time to listen to me and because of him i've changed the trajectory of my life i would like to see more passionate teachers and staff like that thank you thank you paul weber okay just understood we're working through our process so uh no worries all right that's all i have for general comments and again i'll remind you like we talked about you're welcome again but we'll all ask when it's time for public comments at each agenda item if anyone else wants to speak on that topic um next is board communication correspondence does anyone on the board have any closing yeah i was stopped um by my mother's house and talked to me i know
017him and he said he wanted to thank principal burling for the wonderful advisory he attended there were a lot of parents there he got a lot of things for covered community was represented and he just thought it was the most outstanding thing you never attended so i just wanted to pass that on that more of those are on the way correct and also i'd like to say to the board that next week is our big convention in milwaukee and wisconsin center and i know coven makes it frightening for some people to go we've got wonderful speakers and some good things to talk about in education and um hope that a lot of us can make it those are my comments i'll be there anyone else on the board all right uh steve you wanna do
018the superintendent's report thank you yeah so just a few things to highlight one being uh something that uh speaker aaron melvin just talked about in the sr3 survey just wanna remind everybody that that survey is live it closes at the end of the month monday january 31st at five as of nine o'clock this morning uh there were 46 responses in there already so it's out there people are seeing it but please do spread the word because that feedback will be critical also just given everything that's been in the news thought folks might just want to be updated that our total for the year so far in terms of positive culver cases that we know about impacting the brown theory school district is 317 students and 63 staff and while that may sound like a lot
019we're also really pleased that we're moving along and that everybody's here so that's a certainly a positive takeaway also as we get back now from the winter break we're serving this almost middle of the year end of the semester is coming up quickly and we also now start preparing for next year in earnest and so if you know anyone looking to register for kindergarten whether that's our traditional program or montessori program am pm uh even a neighborhood school or community partner like plymouth or knows arc that's all starting now and so we're moving into to next year and if that one doesn't resonate with folks sometimes it's when we think about our eighth graders at karcher who on february 7th now less than a month away will be here at burlington high school getting their
020first taste of the year to come as they turn into freshmen here at vhs also i think what roseanne mentioned the comment was the parent advisory groups that are happening at each of our schools many of them will be having their second meeting here shortly but really just the celebration is we've got roughly 60 parents who have agreed to meet regularly at each of the school sites and an opportunity for some conversation around the experiences that parents are having and the feedback that they're able to provide for us so we're excited about that and then on the heels of that we are going to be hosting a community meeting on february 2nd that will be at parcher middle school as kind of a kickoff gathering to just try to engage you know and have more
021conversation with our partners in the community to just talk about you know continuous improvement and where we're at and hopefully be able to solicit some folks who want to serve kind of an ongoing fashion and kind of community-based committee a couple of other just fun ones uh our cls model program is back it's been on a two-year hiatus we've not been able to do it but this is a program that allows families who are able to then get dental cleaning and ceiling for free it's our partners our preferred dentistry associates of wisconsin they perform that service and prior to covet last couple of years it's been a program that we've been involved in for quite some time also something that is relatively new and i see nick over there but the administrators and staff at
022carter middle school have introduced something that they're affectionately calling karcher cupboard uh spelling it with a k it's a you know the fun of karcher and this is a room that really has a lot of the essential items that some of our students may need that they don't otherwise have and this could be hygiene supplies with your clothing food supplies etc but it's just a really nice uh effort to make sure that we're providing some of those those gaps that might exist for for some from some of our students um we have uh right now students can come in they can you know it's anonymous so they can do it in confidence select the items they need and we continue to backfill the shelves i was a program that they've kicked off at karcher we're
023hoping it is successful in fact and we can then replicate that in other buildings as well just a fun one um this past weekend uh no exception for the varsity dance team here at burlington high school maybe i'm stealing mr burling's thunder i hope not but for the third year in a row they are now our conference champions for southern lakes conference and so that's that's exciting uh certainly congratulations to them and and a side note also to katie rumbler who earned an all-state solo one that was first place in that solo competition um speaking of mid-year also in our elementary level our i ready exam window is open for the mid-year assessment this is something that our staff tend to grow eager for as they're looking to do some analysis of how students are
024performing academically and then uh my last announcement will just be that i do believe this will be our final meeting in this space and so those of you who will be looking for the board for their special meeting at the end of the month on the 24th uh it is our plan currently that that will be at the new district office at 209 wainwright and just a side note that the front door that looks barricaded off is is open and that is the main entrance facing wainwright avenue so just a little foreshadowing for what we hope to be coming it's taking a little bit longer than we thought but it would appear that we're going to be ready to go on the 24th so just pay attention to that on the notice of the news
025and i'm here all right thank you steve uh taylor if you'll take us through the bank statement and the check ratio surely december 2021 uh totally getting cash on hand was one million one hundred ninety thousand eight hundred seventeen dollars revenues and deposits total deposits was six million nine hundred ninety thousand four hundred five dollars and forty five cents which leaves us total available cash on hand eight billion one hundred eighty one thousand two hundred twenty two dollars and forty one cents under expenditures withdrawals totals withdrawals was seven million two hundred eighty seven thousand one hundred twenty one dollars and fifty eight cents which leaves us total ending cash at hand eight hundred ninety four thousand dollars uh eight hundred ninety four thousand one hundred dollars and you approve the december bank statement any discussion
026hearing none i'll call for a vote all in favor say hi all right opposed nay all right thank you promotion to approve the december uh check register as presented and the patrols second okay motion's made and seconded to approve the december check register uh a discussion hearing none all in favor say aye aye opposed name all right thank you to it uh let's go to personnel uh earlier this evening the personnel committee of the school board met and steve you take us through the resignations retirements and termination of certified staff please absolutely and i want to take this one a little bit slow so we have four uh folks that will be have at least announced either a retirement or resignation uh from our certified staff personnel and one being cheryl naber who's been working
027with us as a special education program support teacher and cheryl won't be too far away as she's headed over on the private side of education and will be working in administrative capacity so we want to wish cheryl the very best and then kind of making my way up the list here i want to recognize two teachers that combined have given 64 years from what i can tell to the brother ferry school district and that is don wenzel hellmore who has served uh dyer in winkler elementary schools as a reading specialist and has 32 years with burlington area school district and julie gestlin who most recently has been at cooper elementary as a math interventionist but spent most of her 32 years as an elementary classroom teacher and certainly comes from a family that is deep
028seated in burlington her husband tim is a science teacher here at vhs and all their children are a llama as well so that's julie gesslin and wenzel elmore and then finally i'd like to end the certified staff announcements with a retirement and that is eric burling who is seated right there principal here at burlington high school and eric um 34 years as a teacher co-op advisor athletic director associate principal and principal with 31 of those years here in burlington and so uh without embarrassing him perhaps any further i'll just leave it at that and we will have big announcements uh coming in the days and weeks ahead so [Applause] thanks steve um i'd entertain a motion to accept certified staff resignations second abortions may be seconded any discussion i guess i can't top what steve
029said that eric thank you for as a parent board member or community member thank you for your service taking care of my kids yeah but all of ours i guess yeah any other discussion okay hearing done i'll call for a quote all in favor say aye aye all right steve will you walk us through resignations retirement terminations for non-certified and extracurricular yeah we have uh five in the non-certified category it's ashley dorrington waller elementary part-time custodian steve eckert special education aide here at burlington high school kelly mendoza bilingual instructional aide uh here at bhs alice azamalik which i have to say slow special ed eight here at bhs and natalie whitehouse at waller elementary who works part time as a special education aide as well and then we have two extracurricular staff resignations first being
030joel moliner from the girls varsity soccer coach position here at vhs and the second being rod stoken uh who is resigning his position as assistant coach for the girls varsity basketball thanks steve i'd entertain a motion to accept those resignations non-certified staff and extravehicular sergeant motions were made and seconded any discussion hearing none i'll call for a vote all in favor say yeah hi close name all right that passes um appointments stevie walk us through let's do certified announcer okay you only have three in the certified staff appointment category this month and those are amy murray at cooper elementary school amy's coming in as fifth grade teacher here in january andrea uh walt wallard as a substitute teacher and emilia willis as a substitute teacher so we've got amy at cooper and two substitutes joining
031us this month non-certified staff appointments a little bit of a longer list with 13 folks many of them are in a substitute capacity and for those of you listening in either here or on the stream you may recognize some of these names a number of them are college students that work for uh during the time that they're on break so we have melissa armstrong to substitute eight for the district jason burkman at waller elementary is a part-time custodian drake brayton as a substitute custodian for the district ethan and sage helix both as substitute aids carly jurassic as a substitute aid here at bhs sheila cartsannis at waller elementary's part-time custodian brian cons for the district as a substitute a mackenzie leach and addison mangold both as substitute aides for the district and christa pope at
032dyer elementary will be working both as a special education aide but also specifically in our after-school extended care program that's held at dyer elementary school victoria villarreal at lions center is a special ed aim part-time and megan wallace as the substitute aide for the district thanks steve and entertain a motion to approve those appointments second motions made and seconded any discussion hearing none all in favor say aye the personnel committee also met to discuss six administrator contacts your contracts steve you want to take us through this and as as the community discussed these are our elementary school principals and the two directors who are going to shift contractually from what is essentially their school year type contract to a 12-month contract with the only one of them that has any implications in terms of finances
033being our director of health services otherwise it's just a change in working days all right earlier the personnel committee voted to approve these six administrator contracts i entertain a motion here at the board level and will be approved those contracts okay motions may be seconded any discussion hearing none i'll call for a vote all in favor say aye all right uh donations is next uh it's like burlington high school we have one yeah real quick and i'll kind of steal steve's stutter back first uh julie very administrative she's going to be helping present a little bit later but you missed academic goal fourth year in a row to qualify for state they uh we're in regionals and unfortunately coveted the experience wasn't getting to travel to the site they did the test here at school
034and whatnot but uh i think four years ago that was the first time in like 17 years we had qualified for state now we've made it four years in a row and julie and the students have done a great job of that we're hoping help me not and then complete tire service uh supporting our wrestling program could you please accept that donation let's go through the other ones too yeah thank you eric nick do i do the cartridge absolutely yeah we had two um cartridge cover donations that steve kind of talked about earlier uh one was from bare reality for a hundred dollars and one of those from new core for 251.62 cents but yesterday except those two steve do you want to do the wall sure on behalf of waller elementary school i ended
035up having a nice donation from walmart for some school supplies for both students and staff a little hard to put a price tag on on that donation but wanted to recognize it anyway and similarly we had a buddy bench that was dedicated at waller and so want to thank lexus shear and sheer cares for that donation as well and then finally had an anonymous donation for classroom reading books at really 800.00 impressive so if you please accept those donations as well all right entertain a motion to approve donations any discussion hearing none i'll call for a vote all in paper say hi hi ho's nate all right thank you all right we have five items for action tonight um the first one is uh building a ground school safety drills sure i mean in essence
036this is the list of safety drills that were done at the schools last school year so this is the 2020 2021 school year and every year this list does have to be gathered and sent to the department of public instruction this has been going on for a number of years now and it typically comes due in december and then it's brought to the board here in january and then you submit it on behalf of the district so it just requires your entertainment motion to well let me just back up i almost i caught myself there board members gave me comments there were a couple of schools uh cooper and karcher for instance that don't have any testing on the aed devices do they not have them i'd have to ask that to jill and i
037don't know if she's here we do test all of them in the district so that would be my assumption but i don't know here i can get back to you if you'd like thank you board members any other questions right now i didn't hear his question barry i want to repeat your question i think roseanne i asked if they were all tested oh okay hearing none a uh i mean the public heavy okay uh i'd entertain a motion then to approve the safety drills that's presented some others sorry missions any further discussion hearing none i'll call for a vote all in favor say aye aye aye opposed nay all right thank you all right perfect second of the fight five items for action tonight are teaching and learning open enrollment discussion and so as you
038know each year there are two types of information you get for open enrollment and joel graham who's seated out there who is principal at winkler and lions serves as our open enrollment coordinator joel did you want to say anything i don't want to put you on the spot i can't if you'd like to you know at this time we're just going to say for general education that we would not set a limit just like we did last year that's based on building capacity historic enrollment trends and what our projected enrollment will be for next year so i did give you some data just on open enrollment health i gave an eight-year trend um roughly about you know 300 i'm sorry 237 students you know that we meant to lose out over the eight year trend
039so that's just i want you guys to have that data in your in your hand and see that this year we saw more students hoping to roll out virtually than we have in the last couple years so with that trend and with the building capacity we would say we wouldn't set a seat limit for any grade level or district building right now and i know kathy has no special edition yeah so as joel mentioned when we were able to last year really work on the boundaries at the elementary level specifically that was in the past where we were really tight on space so now we're able to just use overall building capacity and not limit that and then certainly kathy did you want to add in terms of special education again just that in looking
040at the state of wisconsin's recommended guidelines for each grade level at each age low in the world of special education and the guidelines that we put in for our posts involved program project win we have openings a few openings in the early childhood level a few openings at the elementary level as it says in your document and a few openings in the middle school level at this given moment but none of those students if they apply if they have any kind of speech occupational therapy or physical therapy would they have the ability would we have the ability to accept that because all of our therapists are already at the state guideline or above the state guidelines because you know so they have to be coming in with more less minimal criminal needs compared to something
041any board members have any questions or comments anyone in the public have a comment i actually do um i was looking at these these numbers thanks for providing me those um it looks to me like something happened between the 2016-17 year and the 17-18 year and uh and we started going downhill with with losing kids um to open enrollment when we were our our oen is has remained more or less stable it looks like but we just keep losing kids out of the district every year i feel like um i feel like that reflects a little bit on the confidence that the public may have in our public school system on basd and i'm afraid that i'm i'm afraid of what that trend says for us um i would i would hope that we could
042maybe look into that i don't know if we can survey some of those or if we do survey those open and old kids um and find out i think somebody mentioned that we've maybe asked them why um maybe look for ways to improve because that that's that's a that's a trend that you know as a publicly funded school we don't want to see that happen um so if there's anything you can do that's it you're great all right yeah just to take under that so i just look at the data and kind of going off the top of my head here because i didn't know it was hard enough to print it out but i think this past year i mean i know we talked about an eight-year trend of being 237 uh students out
043but i mean if you look at the more near term which i think is what we have to heavily more heavily weight i believe last year what was the last year was the last piece of data on there i think we have 474 kids 46 46 that opened and rolled out now we're talking about what's that over 10 of our districts open and rolling out i mean i i i share that concern i mean no i mean that's significant i mean we're not like a huge district by any means so i i know it's said on the on the notes for the um open enrollment that you know we had 53 percent that came back and said it was i'm assuming it was those items that were listed there if it was um parents work
044in another district they're closer to another district which i certainly can appreciate because we have such a big district you know my question is was that other have that survey um data maybe we don't maybe it's something we need to go after though because it's like aaron said it is it is concerning that this past year we saw 10 of our potential enrollment 15 percent uh go elsewhere okay thank you anyone else all right um board members then i would ask entertain a motion to approve the available open enrollment spaces for both general and special education to come a year all right motion made and seconded any further discussion hearing none i'll call for a vote all in favor say aye all right oppose nate all right um third and fifth items is curriculum course
045um proposal this deal is cute yeah um so here to just bring a course adoption to you uh the course would be called intro to ethnic studies here at the high school julie verhagen would be our high school teacher that would be teaching the course the huge benefit for us is the school district and the y for wanting to bring this course to our students is one it is an elective course um so again one that is not a requirement for students to take but one if of interest is something they can take it would give them dual credit so that means they would receive english bhs credits with us um towards graduation i have a credit because it's a semester and then they would also receive three uw uh transcript credits that would be
046considered gen ed credits for them that could tran through parkside that then could transfer to any uw system school in the state of wisconsin so again that course would be considered as a gen ed course for the uw system and as those in a four-year school there's always those gen ed classes that students have to take so this would give them that opportunity to take care of some of those credits here in the district during this school day within burlington high school and um you know under the supervision of julie um there's four things according to the policy that we need to share with you that i'll go over those just real quickly and then julie will continue from there this class will be offered to students who are in 11th and 12th grade um
047the the objectives for the class are the exact same objectives that would be on the actual campus if you were to take this class at parkside you can see those objectives on page two of the handle that we shared with you um and then again the why of the offering of this class this class it really allows for us to offer the ability for students to take a course that shows them multiple perspectives um differing lived experiences and really that understanding of their own identity in the um global world um julie then and the the final item to be able to share with you as well is the resources that will be used for the course and julie will cover all of that sure and emphasizing the fact that i actually have had some experience
048teaching um general english course through gateway where students could get gateway credit so i had this opportunity to be able to do something with the uw system and i'm quite excited about you know presenting this for students uh so my little bit of background on let's see i've been here for 20 almost 22 years and i was also a graduate of burlington high school myself and i've taught a variety of different courses over the years and so and currently i'm teaching journalism and women's writers many of the courses that i taught already had had units in multiple perspectives this one fills a void i think in a way that it is a high level four course again an elective that juniors or seniors would be able to take for college credit and also graduation credit
049here but it does still avoid in the sense that um offering different discussions in multiple perspectives and diversity so to call a talk a little bit about the course it's really for me um actually you know if you're looking at the syllabus on the front page really um ethnic or racial groups that are the focus but they're not the only ones that are going to be discussed there's lots of different different units and excerpts that we're going to be looking at through basically the the main text a different mirror so it's just the perspective of and in this sense uh another book that's the i guess required reading for the course because most of them are going to be um choice books um was um if you're familiar with when the emperor was divine just
050to give a short little it's a fiction historical fiction based um about what really happened in the japanese internment camps from four different perspectives so it's really eye-opening for students i know that i've had several that have read this as an option for a literature composition course and i know that it was one that they said was very impactful uh for for them because they weren't even aware really of what had happened so but through this lens through the different perspectives of the books and historic history documentaries um and other non-fiction and fictional texts is a way to discuss and to talk about um similarities and differences and our identities as a and and how that culturally um what does it make and how does it make up you know the united states so the
051focus really truly is coming together for the discussions and to be reflective in writing um about so that's what mainly the assignments are really um there's a lot of reflective writing that covers the different units a few of the other choice ones if you would you like me to talk about them briefly just go through each of them okay um this is one the only one actually who is not um i would say an american author um and that is trevor noah born a crime and this one we'll be reading excerpts of if you're familiar with the comedian who's on the late night show and his perspective in what it was like to grow up in uh apartheid and yes he's using humor in a way that touches young adult readers young and high school
052level readers my worldly currently does have that as a little option choice uh another book called um come up yes it was written by angie thomas who um did write another very famous one that you might be familiar with uh but this one is really focused on a girl who has to overcome some odds she's in poverty now she had a father who was very famous well about to be famous musician and she's kind of got some stereotypes to overcome herself to be able to make it into the rap music for it um dear martin some may be familiar with nick's stone this one is another choice book found for one of the units that we look at uh really is about a young man who has writing to document like writing a journal to
053dr martin luther king jr and then deals with some of his own personal situations where he's dealing with justice system um hole in my life now as a jack van post you can see that um sorry that there's different racially authors who are from different racial backgrounds because we're trying to promote different perspectives um this one um is actually an irish and hispanic author and um he makes a big mistake when he's uh young uh right out right out of high school and um he ends up going to prison and then he becomes a writer and really turns his life around and explains his story of his life it's a uh read the animals this one is dealing with really family and uh basically from a puerto rican and white combination family um and um
054the three brothers who kind of all are fighting for who they are and where they fit into in their world also another one that does deal with as well and the woman next door is really um pretty much a conversation between two women one who is african-american one who is white they live next door they have lots in common from being widowers and retired but they don't like each other and then there's some things that happen in the conversation to whether or not their friendship can can uh overcome some of their differences because they have similarities and the last one actually is very interesting it's also the non-fictional so these were fictional um except well actually there's like half and half but this one is a non-fiction book i don't know if you're familiar with
055outliers many of you in business may have been uh already you know reading this um actually i was introduced by my husband and um it's really the story of success and how surprisingly it can deal with like some some interest i'll give you an example that might be the best way uh for instance um there were a lot of pilots from korea um and their airlines were statistically high in crashing we couldn't figure out what was the difference there they looked culturally at what was perhaps something that happened and what was going on and the way that leadership is not questioned so the captain of this the airplane would not be questioned by those that were underneath them um with the navigation actually was one of the major factors in more of their airlines crashing
056their their airplanes crashing and um when they corrected that and they looked at that that's when things began to really change and there's other examples of like i think the hockey league and why so many people from the you know born in a certain month are professional hockey players versus the rest of the year um so it's really kind of an interesting read very different kinds of excerpts there for students as an option sorry i'm just rambling on but if you have any questions or anyone wants to borrow a book to look at it they're certainly welcome to do so i didn't bring a copy for for that reason so um but as i said most of these would be choice books too depending on what the student was interested in reading about um other
057than the core text which i don't have a copy of i only have a digital copy of that one and i'm still in the um stages of reading all of that it's a 500 page book but we will not be reading all of it and we're reading excerpts or chapters of that um that we would be doing um with a different mirror so i don't know if there's any other questions and again this is in collaboration with the university of parkside so julie has been working closely with the professor that teaches the course on site to ensure that the course is mimicked uh fairly closely to is if you were to take the course at the actual campus that our students would still receive that same three credits um though taking it here with julie
058as their teacher so again looking for the adoption of intro to ethnic studies for the high school so that we can put it into the course selection booklet for this fall as a option again if the course runs or not we'll be dependent on the number of students who would show interest in the course in in taking that can i have one last interjection of course just to give information because the what we're excited about is the partnership again with a different university now we've also added uw parkside to the list as you know last year at burlington high school we had our students earned a total of 1853 college credits through these dual credit type programs 444 students last year earned 1260 credits through transcripted courses that our teachers taught the class because they
059worked with gateway in the same manner the gate they meet with gateway instructors it matches my course to 85 i'm confident you know the course will allow that so the students take that we have the vanguard classes here right in the lab behind me we have 87 students last year that earned 183 college credits without ever leaving our campus either partners in education is pi that's with uw-whitewater it's the same relationship we're trying to establish here with whitewater miss spidler besides teaching her ap english also has a master's degree in english so she's allowed to teach kids can take that class and they can either take it for the ap class or they can take it for the uw credit the students have to decide on how they want to do that last year 31
060students took advantage of that and 93 credits were earned and then we also have cap which is the same thing it's just through uw oshkosh and that's mr nye advanced public speaking as well as mr gribble with the advanced accounting classes 32 students earned 102 credits and then you throw in the current start college now an early college credit who goes in october and then you do it in march for us last year in the fall 25 students registered for 43 courses at five different colleges earned 117 credits and this last spring 31 students registered for 53 courses at four different colleges and earned 128 credits so that's where that 1853 goes not even getting into the ap classes where 221 students wrote 364 exams as you know we have one of the highest pass
061rates in the area about a 70 pass rate so again they're earning college credit too it depends on the college they go to this parkside class would be another one that's more in line with the pie and the cap classes that we would be able to again hopefully continue to find some other ways to give kids the college experience college rigor without having to drive like some of our students do with the start college now and early college credit so get some gen ed out of the way did you have to go through like a certification program was if you're working with a uw market professor well i have my master's degree already and then i also have a degree in journalism and there's in the field of actually ethnic studies because it is a
062general education course not an english course i didn't have to have an english master's degree and i probably will be i mean i know i had to do that through gateway where i took a number of classes um through their what red hawk technical college so i may need to be doing that as i go that's something that actually will be exploring meeting with the woman and who's in charge of their program and the professor who i would be working with um if this was to pass we would be meeting next week to kind of go over some of those requirements for me it looks like it's offered as a half credit so is it half semester is just a semester of course it's a semester course offered as a half credit so feasibly i
063mean you could run a couple of times actually it depends on how many people would sign up for it but yes it is a half a credit that would be an english credit for our school because it does fit with our learning objectives within the english course but that it would work as a three-credit course through the uw system because of the rigor and the matching objectives i don't know okay it would be a tough course we have college courses does it i know a lot of colleges require a uh ethnic studies or a multi hopeful position yeah it's very universal now does it fulfill that requirement [Applause] know that they're really starting to play nice with each other i mean the other uw schools as well as the technical college as you know uh
064the general studies degrees at heart you can take your general studies in science and arts at gateway and then you will those will all transfer seamlessly into any of our uw schools in the state of wisconsin which is a huge cost savings for some families because you're paying the technical college price versus the uw price and that and allow kids really to get that flavor of college stay home and you know commute and save some money too until then they can finish up if they really want to go on with a four-year degree that would allow that to happen so i would i would imagine that's good it's a great question to ask but i would think that it's accepted in any of the uw schools as well as other states with uw credits transfer
065easily through other states minnesota you know i would think it would be accepted because of the title and what the course is about absolutely and with the objectives but we could confirm that too but is this our first ethnic studies or course that's been offered here at iceland well actually as i may have mentioned i know that um in the past i don't think i had at points years ago of course african-american lib uh world literature is of course a currently teaching um and that's um writers women's writers with the perspective you know and looking at the gender issues and offers that are women but uh um so i've had experience teaching those courses over the years and as i said did my units of study then offering people's perspectives i think even as my
066experience too as the journalism teachers we continually talk about current events and and look at multiple perspectives and making sure you you're analyzing sources so that that time i feel very comfortable with talking about different points of view and of course i guess i'm just kind of curious about the rationale for trevor noah he's more of a political comedian as opposed to maybe someone that has more i guess i mean i'm not denigrating his experience but i mean there are people out there like you know robert woodson you know carol swain thomas wall shelly steele and people like that that probably wouldn't cover more unique stuff and again this one was one that i was honestly trying to look at supplementing um because i knew that we were going to use all of the um
067texts that they were used as a 500 page book um and it may be more of a book of choice option um so not necessarily or just excerpts here from stories and and why trevor noah because kids do know who he is because he is famous and because he can reach them in a way where i'm not that funny you know i mean it really it it's it's just the different perspectives and and honestly sometimes when you're talking about um racial um issues it's a little easier to talk about something in another country so it brings up the discussion and um maybe a little less anxiety other board members anything else for julia or joe could are we is the game plan to look at other authors i i politically i mean personally i do
068have a problem with trevor noah noah considering that we as a school district have put so much emphasis on fairness in the conversations um anybody listening watching trevor noah knows that he is one side he is completely one-sided so in the objectiveness of being straight down the middle i i would i would not like trevor miller to be part of that that often even as a choice i i'm only asking because yes there are other options certainly that um one of the things that i know that we didn't have that i hadn't gone through to look at yet was a native american perspective specifically with the book choices and so i looked at for instance code talker that was the not a novel about the navajo marines in world war ii excellent and so um
069so i'm not if that was the one hang up for the course going or not going i would be fine with it not i mean certainly i i'd like to offer choices for students to read but it would be fine not having it being part of like any kind of whole group well i i witnessed it i guess i wouldn't necessarily say pull it but offer another side so that it's more balanced and more thick i mean literally from a political standpoint which we we hate that it never becomes that but in all honesty it kind of is and when you're choosing a political pundit comedian from the left side if we're going to choose sides and not offering someone from the other side to counterbalance that or to counteract that to give a different
070perspective that is leaving one side there will be other readings i mean i mean that video what that would be different perspectives too so just as part of the course so but i i guess that is a good point so i'm not i'm not stating that i looked at it for the fact that it was you know his story not necessarily his community or his late night but you can't i don't think you can really separate one from the other because i understand his story i really do um but his story versus you know the part of where he is now and what he does on tv i mean i i think i don't know i just i just would hope that you would have some other offerings that come from the other side and
071there probably will be a few other course books choices added into the mix where students can pick the reason why there's also potentially additional books that would be added is because she continues to work with the professor and as the course evolves even on campus then there's other books that the professor introduces that then she says oh julie this could also be an offering that you could use you know so we cannot do those too if we would want to carl trevor what was what his experience part time yes so you're looking for a book no it's not not necessarily trying to find someone that also experienced apartheid no but i'm just saying because when you say trevor noah personally i did not i did not know his story so when i looked into it
072was like oh apartheid everybody knows about part time right but i guess the point i'm trying to make is i just want to make sure that him being who he is and what he does now aside from his story that there would be something some other author that could also be presented as reading material that would uh kind of counter that would offer another another point of view as well so any other board members have comments questions i mean there's obviously a lot of history in this country to and there's a lot of positives though too so i don't want it just to be negative it's important to talk about the negative i'm not saying shy away from that essential that many meetings but there's a lot of positives and success stories and some of
073those focuses are very much sure there as well and part of the the idea is to be able to talk about some of the negatives and look at what can we learn sure how do we how uh i just want to point out that the dear martin book though fine for the age group that julie is going to be teaching to last year that book was read to our son in eighth grade again inappropriate book for that age group so if we can look into that and was not listed on the curriculum so if we can kind of figure out a way to get into these classrooms and make sure that this content is appropriate and we kind of clean up some of this as a parent it's not fun to be sideswiped with some
074of these things that are coming into our world with our child's children's education i think that that would be great i can't imagine we're the only parents that um feel this way thank you what's the injury it's a young adult eighth grade would be still considered within that realm um understandably that can you read some of the words in that dear martin book i mean i would be [Music] happy here tonight make sure we're staying on target here with all the formats set up tonight we're going to have no i appreciate your comments stacy but let's um take other members of the public and again bear with us we're not trying to stifle a conversation here but we really have a format where we'll listen to your comments take them under advisement and then you
075know maybe respond to the illuminati you have something oh yeah um totally i like the idea of an ethnic studies course and and i understand we're talking about um 11th 12th graders um i would encourage the board to really look at some of these books read some of them if you can before you approve the course uh because i think some of you are maybe not totally appropriate if you do go with those books can i recommend that there's some um or a lot of communication with parents on what which books that their style their child chooses which books are available to them and which book their their child is reading in that class so that so that parents can be involved um and there can be conversations at home about these books as well
076and i can tell you outlier just probably one of the best books that i've seen you guys that's awesome awesome that's a good book for anybody yeah any other comments yeah paul yeah our children are learning and i think in this small community we raise our children and they lead the small community and it's a whole different world and we have to realize what people have gone through in their lives and what their ancestors had gone through and i think a little controversy in bringing up some questions about does everybody grow up in burlington wisconsin and have the same concerns or do we want to hear about what happened to people in japanese war camps or do you want to hear these other ethnic groups that have grown up because this is a very small
077small microcosm of this society in fact it's almost too small and when we get out in this world and i know with my own children this is a whole different world and if they're not introduced to this and discuss this before they get out with different ethnicities religions races uh sexual preferences when you come from this town you are not ready for it and this kind of thing will live and i don't follow anything except that we really need to broaden our horizons here you know i think in a lot of ways where i think this is absolutely trying to take this course but i agree with you you know i think that it's important that we don't teach our children that things are things we're going to do however on the other hand i
078trust myself i was on the school board the same years for 15 years and we went through all of this the school board is mostly advising the way i understand it and i think the teacher should be given the prerogative of what they're teaching if you have an objection because you think it's something inappropriate then i think you have every right to bring it up but i don't think that we as community members without a diverse jobs and professions should be telling people of other professions what to do i wouldn't want anybody telling me what to do with my job and i don't think you want to tell the teacher what to teach i don't think i think we need to trust teachers they went to school for this i wasn't because they were going
079to tell the teacher how to teach everything i can't understand this stuff myself so i i was of the teachers if there was an objection or a kid comes along with the book and you think whoa what is this you bring it up to the principal and you bring it up to the teacher thank you mr webber that was that's right and i guess i i probably should be remiss because we're trying to avoid having a debate or discussion with the federal public so just please make sure to address your comments to the board um as opposed to each other because you know the school board's not a time for it to be even though we value your comments we're just trying to keep this focused possible as a reminder remember this is an elective
080or 11th and 12th graders who are starting to make their own decisions so that is the other thing to remember and it is actually tied to uw parkside with the learning goals and objectives so there's there's things that i added um but there's also you know the in talking with the teacher that we discussed about uh this but it's also there are some things that you know with the pairing of the course that is really kind of expecting the course to be if anyone else in the public has comments on this agenda thought are hearing none board members then i entertain a motion to approve the adoption of this course the ethnic studies course of the high school any further discussion i'll just say to the comment that was just made you know yeah burlington
081is very small community and you don't have a lot of diversity here but i think you're selling kids short today kids are more accepting and tolerant of other races sexual orientations religions today then when i was in school kevin was in school sorry when you were in school you taught pros just in general i'm sorry but you need to give people more benefit than that and to think that people are just going to leave this community living in a box not understanding the the plight of you know black brown whatever i just i can't stand for comments like that because kids today are more tolerant and accepting hold on any other board comments are hearing no more discussion i'll entertain all right let's uh vote all in favor say aye aye opposed nate all right
082julian joe thank you for presenting thank you all right just actually real quick um if this course does run in the fall we have a i guess like a report from you see kind of how for both of you whatever i don't care but i guess how the tone was in the class what what kids were interested in what they weren't interested in things like that i mean i think it would be great to hear that i would love to i would love to share it and you can even bring the kids in i think that yeah all right we have two more things one this one's pretty easy i think it's uh the school board candidate ballot order so marlo you are clerk we have an old-fashioned way of drawing so this will be
083the order of the candidates and i see some of you are in the audience tonight thanks for coming but we're gonna this is the order you appear on the ballot so it's a random draw um so thanks peter um i will read off the names i will hand them to roseanne and she will put them in a nice little tin bucket here so first kevin bird barry schmaily mario de nodo ryan mueller james boseman aaron melby and that's it tabitha hearst first one mario de nodo next kevin bird ryan mueller tabitha herbst am i saying that correctly aaron melby james boseman barry schmalen all right thanks marlon thank you all right the last item for action tonight is the wasd resolutions so this is in conjunction with the wasb school board convention that's going to
084be held next week in milwaukee um susan you're our our designee our delegate for the convention and you're going to take us through i think there's 10 resolutions tonight and rosanna if you might be covering a couple of these so as a school board we hear the resolutions we decide collectively how our district's going to vote so we're going to talk about over inventive tonight we'll decide and then next week at the school board convention we'll cast our vote as a whole board for each resolution correct there might be some conditions or subtractions from it from the thing itself from the resolution itself but it usually pretty much stays the same these resolutions were presented by school boards all over the state and then we discussed them we have 32 members that work on this
085from all over the state we are district 13 and i'm the representative for region 13 and i represent 47 school districts from racine all the way to the other end to jamesville so um i'm because i'm on the board of directors i'm automatically on this and then susan was appointed so what we're going to do is go through most of them but the last few all have to do with one thing and you've all had them to read so i don't think we need to go through in detail i don't know if you want to vote on each one separately or how you want to do that i'd suggest we go right into it okay just in case there's something that's like i say the last eight i'm not going to go through a step-by-step
086step because they're all dealing with the but i'll go through the first one this one shocked me when it came through it was presented by the superior school board and it has to do with safe harbor legislation and every single one of our counties deals with sex trafficking with 13 year olds and it's just older or younger and right now the way it is if they are caught the child themselves is the one that's in trouble and they're the ones that are prosecuted not the ones who have stolen them away and introduce them to this terrible way of life so this um resolution would change that you know it seemed that the runaways and the kids that are on this on this awful path would be given like some love and they would not be
087prosecuted they would see that they would get benefits from uh counseling and whatever they need for mental health and it's just a much better idea i just can't see why the legislators are not going to go for this i think it should be passing i hope that all of you feel the same we've got to protect our kids this is a terrible thing and it yes it's happening in racine county also in fact i heard about them the other day so it does happen not too far from here so anyway that's all i wanted to say about that does anyone have anything they want to add about that or shall we vote let's go and go okay all in favor say hi hi close nate all right thanks for watching okay and i'll turn the
088next one over to susan so the next one is resolution number two and it is about annual inflationary or greater increases in per pupil spending resources it has to do with annual increases in the per pupil spendable resources for public school districts that meet or exceed inflation so there's three ways that lawmakers provide spendable spending authority for us in three different ways and one is by increasing per pupil revenue limits one is by providing an increase in per pupil categorical aid and the firmware is a combination of both so this resolution supports annual increases provided through any of those three ways that meets or exceeds creative inflation that's what that one's about any comments or questions let's hope we get it yeah and just people know too i mean the wasd resolutions these aren't laws
089that we're changing these are recommendations to our state legislature and our lobbyists go to the legislators and talk this over with them that's a good point it's directions to our lobbyists for the wasp board members can talk to you yes that's exactly what it is yes i'll make a comment too that if we're not increasing our spending our spending for excuse me our financial support for schools at least at the rate of inflation we're effectively decreasing it because just giving somebody a cpi or inflationary increase is really just keeping them up with where they should be so i think this is an important resolution and right now currently our state funding is pretty messed up because we don't it doesn't get a we never know what we're getting and it's not tied to cpi or
090any kind of manual it's it's kind of haphazard i'll put it that way when i say it's messed up it's a system and it's not a political thing it's been that way for decades but it's could be improved this is a small step in the right direction uh any other comments okay hearing none let's take a look all in favor say aye aye opposed nate okay so uh resolution number three is about funding for children with disabilities and this one has to do with increasing the special education categorical aid reimbursement level to not less than 60 percent of the prior year eligible costs and maintaining the funding at not less than this percentage each year thereafter via some sufficient appropriation some sufficient appropriation is that would guarantee that this that the specified or the promised
091percentage level of support is met so that would be so the sum sufficient is um is is what is different about it this is an amendment to one of the resolutions that we already have and they're adding that some sufficient with the 60 percent i think you're in it i just have a comment on that and also the federal government does not give us enough special ed they had promised to give us a certain amount and they've never done it so that means the state has to come up with more otherwise you have to transfer money from the regular fund into this initiative any other comments on this all right hearing none i'll take a book all in favor say hi all right okay the next one is also an amendment to one of the
092resolutions that we have and it's about advanced learning um the wasd encourages that schools will focus less on identifying gifted students and more on identifying an address and addressing unmet learning needs of the students it encourages the districts to provide a variety of advanced programming opportunities some of these programming opportunities would be things like early admissions to kindergarten or first grader high school curricular modifications access to dual enrollment courses in high school ap courses in high school or the ib the international baccalaureate curriculum any comments on this one there's a lot of discussion there i imagine this might be controversial we had three long meetings i think this one actually kind of fits with what we do here in burlington i mean i'm looking at some of these things at the bottom that they list
093like mr growling was saying before all the course offerings we offer for our advanced students and i think we're working on trying to focus on making sure that all our students are meeting their learning needs any of the discussion programs all right let's take a look then all in favor say aye aye aye opposed nay all right thank you okay and number five is about the mental health services and it's about broadening staff expenditures eligible for state categorical aid so they want to broaden the scope of the dpi issued pupil services licenses eligible to qualify for the state aid for the mental health programs to include this social workers school counselors and school psychologists this will better meet the student mental health needs enable a broader range of school district expenditures to qualify for state
094categorical aid for the mental health programs any questions or comments no i think this is something that's been deteriorating over time and it really needs to be because obviously with the changes that we've seen in our district when we make a change sometimes it's a counselor one of the most important people that's addressing these children's needs and especially now without code people in class and not in class there's more i need for this all the time we need for mental health for kids any other comments hearing none i'll take a vote all in favor say hi hi ho's nate well the next one is on number six and it's also about mental health services eligible for reimbursement this supports legislation to broaden the scope of mental health service professionals eligible for reimbursement from the state
095to include people that have their licenses already licensed mental health social workers licensed mental health counselors licensed mental health psychologists and also licensed mental health community coordinators so this will broaden the scope of mental health providers eligible to have their services reimbursed by the state to include all of those that i just mentioned so they're are they employees of the district that are getting reimbursed are they sometimes yeah we send them for their senate it can be community mental health coordinators that's listed in here too yes but they are licensed they already have boys these are ones that already have their licenses yeah that one do they did they double dip because you have medical insurance or state aid insurance and then they get reimbursed through the dpi as well while we think that they
096were employed by the district through a contract they couldn't charge acceptable right but there are three these could be subcontractors i'm asking the question if i you know my son has an issue in school and that they say go to dr social that's a recommended provider right and you'll get reimbursed for it so i send my son there we submit it through insurance and then dpi reimburses no i don't think the doctor in that case yeah should be some discussion i could see this as a real opportunity no i don't think there are any kevin um if they're not enough in the district to handle all the kids that need that need help we can contract with a private one in the state of faithful so you don't have to i mean that's what this
097is about that some of these districts don't you know northern the northwest they don't even have social workers there are not very many or guidance counselors not very many so they need extra help for that that's what that was about i'd be fairly confident that a school district if you were being reimbursed by a school district for services in one of these fields you could not charge your basement privately yeah whether you're whether or not you're reverse bench i guess what it's getting is their mechanism to ensure that there isn't a double-dipping scenario occurring like there's a school district submitting something to the state saying we contracted with so and so there's the backup bill whatever to ensure that there isn't a double-dip scenario i i don't know that's my question yeah well when you
098guys have a discussion i think that's something you want to have sure we can talk about it about it already but we can talk about it again and that's what will happen at the delegate assignment that's a good question definitely uh any other comments on this one hearing none i'll call for a vote all in favor say aye aye okay uh resolution the seventh one is about curriculum and professional training on asian americans and pacific islanders so wsb is encouraging um the schools to develop an educational curriculum and professional training to teach history culture contributions of the asian americans and the pacific islanders to the economic cultural and social development of wisconsin and the united states they also request that the legislature the legislature provides sufficient funding to develop an appropriate model curriculum and a
099training package it aims to build greater understanding of asian american and pacific islanders economic cultural and other contributions that they've made it also may reduce violence or threats of violence against asian american and pacific islanders what is brought this to the yeah this needs to be a resolution yeah yeah it's it's a curriculum they're trying to develop a curriculum and they're they really haven't had a lot of funding for it the people who brought this up are communities that have a very large lung population and they've been here for more than 100 years and they're really nobody knows much about their history so they were the ones that brought this up thinking that we need to know more about themselves has this been discussed in past years yes this is just on the heels of
100no it's going on politically no no i no i didn't feel it was did you i don't think no i don't think so and there was a resolution last year and it was about the native americans and developing a curriculum for that also that's a state law now that we talked about last year are we doing that already isn't like fourth grade the unit where you learn about native americans yes yes so we needed to wrestle what we're already doing well that's fourth grade but there's a lot more to it than just teaching in third grade yeah there's just at different levels they have a person now that the vpi that deals with is this part of a total allocation though i mean if they if they make the salary if they make this a
101mandatory allocation will other areas be less allocated because of that if there's a let's say there's one big pot of money to take it from and they make a mandatory allocation for this specific this specific specific resolution you know i don't know where come from it's meant it's mandated either because it the way these are written it's wasb encourages wisconsin public schools so it's not really mandated but it's something that they feel is an important thing to bring up and to talk about i don't disagree well i'll make this point earlier this evening we just heard a presentation from jill and julie about ethnic studies right and asian and pacific islanders would be one of the ethnic groups that was brought up with one of the four that among others that were brought in right
102i'm not specifically addressing no i'm just saying my point is that burlington we're kind of doing this i mean the first sentence that wasp encourages wisconsin public schools to develop an education curriculum professional training to teach the straight culture of the asian american specific editors so there's a lot of discussion on it yeah and there'll be more discussion at the delegate convention sometimes the one you think that's going to happen these discussions i wonder if this is brought up because sometimes asian americans are not necessarily highlighted as a yeah any other comments or questions hearing none all in favor say aye aye opposed nate all right roseanne or susan i think the last three don't are they tied together they're all tied together and what the whole idea of it is is that the wasp
103will maintain a national presence and or membership the national association and will participate and support that national presence and membership when compatible with wasb and its policies the wasb urges members to actively participate in and support national presence right now we don't feel the national board of the national board is meeting our needs so we are pulling out as 16 other states are if things improve we'll see what happens but every every one of those has to do with that and it's just really changing the language to say a national organization because we do feel we need a national organization because we want to deal with the people in washington which i am missing out the day after the convention because they can't so they're taking out the national school there was a controversial story
104in the news a few months ago what was that again with the national school board association where states decided to back out listening to parents anyone who disrupted this terrorist national school association right they came out and then a number of states came up and said that's too much yeah so i think personally i think it's a wise move i trust john ashley who's in charge of wasb he's very learned he's very up on everything that goes on in the united states and i just trust that so i feel we should go along with those and change the wording any other comments on this one actually let's take all three together because they're really nice technical issues everyone all in favor say aye aye opposed nate all right that passes well we had i think
105unanimous voting on all time this year i think that's a first long end on the board no dissenting votes although the second quotes are [Music] uh that's it for action items just in case anybody is interested what the board just talked about will happen in milwaukee at the delegate assembly of the wisconsin association of school boards it happens to be wednesday january 19th and so if you're looking for that you can find out more information on the wsb's website if you're just curious or i know it's going to be a live stream so if you want to listen to the statewide version of this same debate you can check it out there and i hope a lot of you can come to the convention for just a little while it's going to be wonderful lots
106of chance to meet other school board members from other districts all right members of the audience i think i forgot to the public i forgot to ask if future meeting dates we just mentioned the school board convention special board meeting will be the 24th like steve mentioned that'll be at the new district office so by cartridge but keep an eye on your your notices in case for some reason the room isn't ready here um community meeting on the second you've already touched on that for february 2nd and then next month's board meeting and personnel committee are the 14th day so thanks everyone for coming right i'd entertain a motion to adjourn nothing more basic than school board did i hear an emotion okay uh bush's maiden second today's discussion hearing none all in favor say
107aye aye opposed name congratulations